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The anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks said Tuesday that it has obtained a vast portion of the CIA's computer hacking arsenal, and began posting the files online in a breach that may expose some of the U.S. intelligence community's most closely guarded cyber weapons.
A statement from WikiLeaks indicated that it planned to post nearly 9,000 files describing code developed in secret by the CIA to steal data from targets overseas and turn ordinary devices including cellphones, computers and even television sets into surveillance tools.
The hacking organisation made the statement as it announced a huge release of confidential documents from the CIA as part of its mysterious Year Zero series, founder Julian Assange claimed. The group said that from October 2014 the CIA was "looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks" to enable them to "engage in nearly undetectable assassinations."
takyon: WikiLeaks: Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed and (selected document) Weeping Angel (Extending) Engineering Notes. Also at NYT, USA Today, BBC, and Reuters. The Hill reports that Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu has called for an investigation... into the leak of the documents and tools.
(Score: 2) by fleg on Wednesday March 08 2017, @02:46AM (7 children)
The former MI6 agent behind the controversial Trump dossier has returned to work, nearly two months after its publication caused an international scandal and furious denials from Washington and Moscow." [theguardian.com]
"Published in January by BuzzFeed, the dossier suggested that Donald Trump’s team had colluded with Russian intelligence before the US election to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Citing unidentified sources, it said Trump had been “compromised” by Russia’s FSB spy agency during a trip to Moscow in 2013.
It alleged that Trump was secretly videoed with Russian prostitutes in a suite in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow. The prostitutes allegedly urinated on the bed used by Barack Obama during a presidential visit."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @03:08AM (2 children)
Seven Russian Diplomats have Died since November [dailycaller.com]
There was that guy shot in Turkey, which was probably exactly what it seemed - someone with syrian ties angry over the bombings.
But man, this is starting to look like a pattern. WTF is going on?
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:47AM (1 child)
Note that the probability of death is about 10 in a 1000 for an American 60 year old. Say there are 1000 senior russian diplomats (about 100 countries in the world, so probably reasonable estimate); say they have lifestyle roughly equivalent to average American, i.e. comfortable but sedentary, with a bit more food and drink than is healthy; then we expect about 10 Russian diplomats to die per annum. Here we have 7 deaths in a 5 month period. Assuming binomial distribution one can calculate that the probability of this being natural death is about 6 %.
There is probably a selection bias, in that likely the article authors selected a particular time window and averaged over that window in order to emphasise the statistical anomaly (so, for example, there may have been no deaths in the prior 6 months). So this is likely an underestimate of the probability.
I'm sure either the CIA or the FSB will be doing the analysis properly. But likely not both.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 08 2017, @06:36AM
I think one should use the Poisson distribution for estimating the probability - its history include [wikipedia.org] "investigating the number of soldiers in the Prussian army killed accidentally by horse kicks".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:01AM (3 children)
You do realize he copied that 'dossier' pretty much wholesale from a larp on 4chan right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @04:49AM (1 child)
yeah 4chan claimed it, but last i read the info was circulating long before 4chan used it. but if you have proof that shows otherwise i'd be interested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:32AM
FAKE NEWS!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 08 2017, @05:44AM
> You do realize he copied that 'dossier' pretty much wholesale from a larp on 4chan right?
You do realize a troll on 4chan just made up that claim to sucker in people like you, right?